'What is so staggering is how the candidates have all unveiled their farcical, cringe-worthy campaign videos, policy package after policy package, and reliably failed to mention the climate every single time.' ✍️ CarolineLucas for MetroOpinion
The candidates have all unveiled their farcical, cringe-worthy campaign videos, policy package after policy package, and reliably failed to mention the climate every single time If you’re feeling the heat this week, spare a thought for the Tory leadership candidates.
Kemi Badenoch claimed at her leadership launch on Tuesday morning that net zero amounted to ‘unilateral economic disarmament’. What is so staggering is how the candidates have all unveiled their farcical, cringe-worthy campaign videos, policy package after policy package, and reliably failed to mention the climate every single time.
That’s right – the target that every single Tory MP signed up to in their 2019 election manifesto. But a bold vision to tackle the climate emergency? Don’t make me laugh. And crucially, the solutions to the climate crisis are exactly what people up and down the country are looking for: a street-by-street home insulation programme to slash spiralling energy bills; investment in clean, green, home-grown renewables to deliver long-term energy security; and the creation of hundreds of thousands of high-skilled, well-paid green jobs in the process.
Just ask Tory MP Chris Skidmore, and Lord Goldsmith, whose joint piece in the Daily Telegraph implored their party to smell the coffee and throw its weight behind net zero.
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